I’ve noticed that all active skins look like sh*t now when viewing them in the Hangar / Docking Bay. It’s the damn updated lighting effects CCP recently implemented, gives the ships a strange glow, like they’re coated with a radioactive slime.
Here’s a picture of my Loki T3 Cruiser with the new Snowline Bladeracer skin docked in station:
Now here’s a picture of it in space after undocking:
Big difference in the look of the ship skin, when in station it looks like sh*t and when in space it looks great. The main problem is that while in space, you normally won’t see it due to having the camera view zoomed out for grid situational awareness.
Also speaking of the Hangar view, why in the hell is the default screen after logging into the game always facing a blank wall looking at the ass-end of the ship?
The default view after logging into the game should actually be turned 180 degrees around so you’ll be facing an active portion of the Hangar Bay while looking at the front of the ship like this: